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As of Dec 10, NVIDIA has released Studio Driver 441.66 which appears to have solved the problem
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=104082. If using a GPU earlier than 1xxx, there is also a Gaming Driver 441.66 which has been released.
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Platform:
DR on Windows 10 with an NVIDIA GPU. This has been reported with DR 16.1 and 16.1.1 but likely affects earlier versions also.
Symptoms:
A number of forumites have experienced freezes/hangs when working with Blackmagic RAW footage, as soon as play is pressed in the viewer DaVinci Resolve freezes. This makes it necessary to use Windows Task Manager to End the DR Task.
UPDATE: Some are reporting no problems with BM RAW. When reporting your results, please indicate which flavor of BM RAW fails. For me, failed with BMPCC6K-Wedding sample files.
UPDATE: Further comments suggest the failure may be more likely to happen when more than one BMRAW clip being processed at once, such as during a transition between clips.
Workaround:
Turn off GPU decoding of BM RAW. Follow the pull-down menu DaVinci Resolve --> Preferences, Decode Option panel, deselect Use GPU for BM RAW Decode, then press the Save button. It will be necessary to shut down and restart DR to apply this change.
Solution for GTX 1xxx and RTX 20xx GPU cards:
For these cards, NVIDIA provides "Studio" drivers which are optimized and tested with Graphics processing software. "Studio" drivers should be used instead of "Gaming" drivers with DR. At this time, the latest Studio version driver is 441.12 and this driver version exhibits the problem. Studio driver version 431.86 or earlier version 431.70 do not have this problem and GPU decoding of BM RAW footage may be used with them.
Solution for NVIDIA cards earlier than GTX 10xx:
NVIDIA does not provide "Studio" drivers for the older GPU cards, and a "Gaming" driver must be used. NVIDIA has published a recommendation for driver version 436.48 in a recent Release Notes document.
Additional:
Hopefully this problem will eventually be sorted out between Blackmagic Design and NVIDIA.
Until then, if you want to find an earlier version of the NVIDIA driver, here is the link:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Reported Performance with Pre-1xxx NVIDIA GPU Cards:
Card Type | Driver Works | Driver Fails | Comments
980ti --- --- 436.48 ------ 440.97,441.08 ---- https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=101514
780 ti -------- 436.15 ------------------------ https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=102152#p565936
950M -------- 436.48 -------- 441.12
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=104082. If using a GPU earlier than 1xxx, there is also a Gaming Driver 441.66 which has been released.
---- Below retained for historical context -------------
Platform:
DR on Windows 10 with an NVIDIA GPU. This has been reported with DR 16.1 and 16.1.1 but likely affects earlier versions also.
Symptoms:
A number of forumites have experienced freezes/hangs when working with Blackmagic RAW footage, as soon as play is pressed in the viewer DaVinci Resolve freezes. This makes it necessary to use Windows Task Manager to End the DR Task.
UPDATE: Some are reporting no problems with BM RAW. When reporting your results, please indicate which flavor of BM RAW fails. For me, failed with BMPCC6K-Wedding sample files.
UPDATE: Further comments suggest the failure may be more likely to happen when more than one BMRAW clip being processed at once, such as during a transition between clips.
Workaround:
Turn off GPU decoding of BM RAW. Follow the pull-down menu DaVinci Resolve --> Preferences, Decode Option panel, deselect Use GPU for BM RAW Decode, then press the Save button. It will be necessary to shut down and restart DR to apply this change.
Solution for GTX 1xxx and RTX 20xx GPU cards:
For these cards, NVIDIA provides "Studio" drivers which are optimized and tested with Graphics processing software. "Studio" drivers should be used instead of "Gaming" drivers with DR. At this time, the latest Studio version driver is 441.12 and this driver version exhibits the problem. Studio driver version 431.86 or earlier version 431.70 do not have this problem and GPU decoding of BM RAW footage may be used with them.
Solution for NVIDIA cards earlier than GTX 10xx:
NVIDIA does not provide "Studio" drivers for the older GPU cards, and a "Gaming" driver must be used. NVIDIA has published a recommendation for driver version 436.48 in a recent Release Notes document.
Additional:
Hopefully this problem will eventually be sorted out between Blackmagic Design and NVIDIA.
Until then, if you want to find an earlier version of the NVIDIA driver, here is the link:
https://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us
Reported Performance with Pre-1xxx NVIDIA GPU Cards:
Card Type | Driver Works | Driver Fails | Comments
980ti --- --- 436.48 ------ 440.97,441.08 ---- https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=101514
780 ti -------- 436.15 ------------------------ https://forum.blackmagicdesign.com/viewtopic.php?f=21&t=102152#p565936
950M -------- 436.48 -------- 441.12
Last edited by Michael_Andreas on Tue Dec 10, 2019 10:57 pm, edited 8 times in total.
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DR Studio 17.4.1 Win10Pro 21H1/19043.1320 - i7-6700K@4GHz, 32GB RAM
RTX 2070 8GB, "Studio" driver 472.39
OS,Library: 1TB SSD - Project: 1TB SSD - Cache: 1TB NVMe
DR Studio 17.4.1 Win10Pro 21H1/19043.1320 - i7-6700K@4GHz, 32GB RAM
RTX 2070 8GB, "Studio" driver 472.39
OS,Library: 1TB SSD - Project: 1TB SSD - Cache: 1TB NVMe